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Ricepaper
Pith (tong cao)
Medulla
Tetrapanacis
Properties:
The herb is sweet and
tasteless in flavour, and slightly cold in nature.It cats
on lung and stomach channels. Being sweet and tasteless
for inducing diuresis and excreting dampness, and slightly
cold for clearing heat, the herb can ensure proper
downward flowing of heat to treat stranguria, and clear
breast channel to stimulate milk secretion. It has the
effects of clearing heat, inducing diuresis, promoting Qi
circulation and stimulating milk secretion. The herb is
indicated for stranguria due to heat, galactostasis and
other syndromes.
Effects:
Clearing heat and dampness
and stimulating milk secretion.
Indications:
1. The herb can be used in combination
with plantain seed, raw liquorice root, fringed pink and
other herbs for inducing diuresis and treating stranguria,
to treat damp-heat in the lower-jiao, scanty dark urine
and dribbling urination with difficulty and pain; and with
umbellate pore-fungus, poria, areca seed and other herbs
of inducing diuresis and alleviating edema, to treat
edema, abdominal distention and dysurial.
2. The herb can be used in
combination with cowherb seed, pangolin scales, bupleurum
root, globethistle root and other herbs for promoting
blood and Qi circulation and stimulating milk secretion,
to treat puerperal galactostasis due to stagnation and
obstruction of the breast channel; and with Chinese
angelica root, astragalus root, cowherb seed and other
herbs for invigorating Qi, nourishing blood and stimulating
milk secretion, to treat galactostasis due to deficiency
of Qi and blood.
Dosage and Administration:
3-6g.
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